23 August 2015

On 23 April 2015, it was announced that v flower would receive an update for the VOCALOID4 engine.

According to Miwasiba, Flower is female. The reason for the boy-ish design is because 'perfect flowers' have both pistil and stamen and this design is supposedly to be the 'stamen' and the v3 flower design is the 'pistil'.

Tweet source from Miwasiba

Miwasiba also posted Flower's concept art on twitter to clear up her gender drama. Here's the concept art:

V4 Flower is actually an update for Flower from Vocaloid 3. Flower, the mascot character of the software v flower, is a VOCALOID3 library. Her voice was described by HoneyWorks as a "a charming female vocal" with a powerful, androgynous-sounding voice. The vocal allows her to have the reserved female tone needed for slow rock songs yet have the heavy sound needed for faster and more upbeat rock. She has a sad tone of voice in her bass, this is designed to give her the impression of a kuudere in nature. Her treble has a boyish sound to it.

That's strange, even so, an important place deep in my chest aches
And your voice that calls my name, is as vivid as always
The thorns that chould have disappeared are always piercing me, so I don't forget
These feelings are a new chain, we will carry them forever

I don't regret anything, I just suddenly think
Of a word where everything went well

After a different meeting, I would have a different love
And by now, it would have worked out well
Like the calm after a storm
My broken heart has been healed

but I wonder why every time the seasons change, you call out
To this irreplaceable, along with our memories

From now on, always, you probably will continue to live inside my heart
In that time which we can't return, our figures laugh without knowing pain
It's sad, witout means, we are separated like this
as long as these feeling are smoldered, we'll always, always just be friends

07 January 2015

In early August 2013, a new update for galaco was shown and a demo song released for galaco's next project. In October 2013, it was confirmed galaco would be due for a spring 2014 release and that there would also be a VOCALOID NEO version.

On July 9, 2014, galaco NEO's new design and release date was revealed. galaco NEO was set to be available to download on her birthday, August 5. The download price will be ¥16,000.

The new version contains two new vocals, "Red" and "Blue", with "Red" being similar to the original vocal. This new version's voice provider is publicly confirmed to be Ko Shibasaki.

galaco RED (solid and clear)

galaco's "RED" vocal is based on her original prize version. It fixes many flaws and general annoyances with the original vocal. It is designed to be a faithful recreation of her provider's voice. It has clearer results and "brighter" characterization than galaco "Blue".

galaco BLUE (calm and full-bodied)
galaco "BLUE" is a new vocal for galaco with a different tone of voice. It is more of a supporting vocal than "Red", acting more as a back up vocal rather than a main vocal, a moodier version of the galaco vocal, and it has a deeper tone than galaco "Red".

02 January 2015

On the 20th November, YAMAHA made an official announcement regarding VOCALOID 4's release. It was announced that the release would be in December 17th, 2014

According to Wikipedia, there are some products of V4:

VY1v4

VY1v4 was realeasd on December 17, 2014. This is the latest version of the VY1 product. It contains 4 voices("natural", "normal", "power" and "soft") and was released on December 17, 2014, for both PC and Mac.

VY1v4 box art

Ruby

A female English vocal developed by VocaTone. Ruby was originally going to be due before Christmas of 2014, however, PowerFX confirmed that she would be postponed. So her status is still in Development.

Megurine Luka V4X

Megurine Luka V4 will be released on Februari 2015 as an update from Vocaloid 2 Megurine Luka. In January, it was mentioned that a "POWER" vocal was being produced. In late December, Wat mentioned that Luka was focused with variation of "breath", in contrast to the Kagamines strength of tension.

Megurine Luka V4X

Kagamine Rin/Len V4X

Kagamine V4X package will be released in the 3rd quarter of 2015. On November 21st, Wat shared that the Kagamines are going to be a V4X title, like Luka. At this time, they were testing and implementing E.V.E.C. on the duo VOCALOIDs. In late December 2014, Wat tweeted saying the new V4 update was about 35% complete. Wat also mentioned that they were aiming for variations of strength with their vocals and control the vocals force.

Yuzuki Yukari V4

Yuzuki V4 expected for release in quarter 1 of 2015 .On 20th December, via a livestream it was announced that Yukari would receive three V4 voicebanks. As well as her whisper "Onn" (穏) voicebank; a powerful "Lin" (凛) and a natural "Jun" (純) voicebank, similar to her original V3, would be released. It was also revealed that Yukari's voicebanks could be purchased together in one package or separately.

Yuzuki Yukari V4
Jun (Natural), Onn (Whisper), Lin (Power)

SF-A2 Miki V4

SF A2 Miki V4 as an update of Vocaloid 2 is stil on the Development. Miki was the first of the VOCALOID2 vocals to be announced for the updates. There is no information yet about when it will be released on 2015.

SF-A2 Miki V4

Kaai Yuki V4

It was later confirmed that due to Yuki's original voice provider maturing, possible growl samples would have to be recorded from a new voice provider.

Kaai Yuki V4

Hiyama Kiyoteru V4

An update on the Vocaloid 2 product. There is no information yet about when it will be released.

Hiyama Kiyoteru V4

Nekomura Iroha V4

An update on the Vocaloid 2 product. There is no information yet about when it will be released.